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January 14, 2016

XWS Slovenia Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Xray Winter Series Slovenia was held at the technical MSM club track in Maribor. The demanding track layout made for some fun racing and the event started with a round of controlled practice for seeding before the qualifiers started. In the Touring Stock class Jan Popic, Alojzij Osvald and Dario Veseli fought for the top spot with the better end for Jan who took the TQ from Alojzij and Dario. The Formula class saw Andrej Grebenc taking the TQ from Jan Pernarcic and Borut Svoljsak while in the 1/12th scale class Rok Rudl was the man to beat as he secured himself the TQ from Jernej Vuga and Mis Valentin.

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January 14, 2016

Xray Work.Shop North Cyprus – Announcement

Xray team driver and Turkish national champion, Mustafa Alp will hold an Xray Work.Shop at the Team NCRC Arena-Lefkosa on the 30th of January. The workshop will focus on the T4’16 touring car and all participants can try the teached tips and tricks at the following indoor season warm-up race on Sunday the 31st of January, held at the same place. More information about the Work.Shop and the warm-up race can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 14, 2016

Serpent GT Cup Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2016 Serpent GT Cup was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong with over 70 drivers in attendance. New to the 2016 season is the addition of a Modified class where the drivers are free in terms of engine and tyre chose although the chassis has to remain the standard Cobra GT. The new class attracted a total of 12 drivers with 60 entries for the Stock category. The race schedule of the 1-day event saw three 10 minute qualifiers for the Stock class and a single 15 minute qualifier for the Modified class with the fastest lap counting towards the qualifying results. The A-mains would then be run as a single 40 minute main for the Stock class and two electric-style mains for the Modified category.

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January 14, 2016

Xray X-Race UK – Announcement

The legendary Cotswolds outdoor on-road track will play host for the first Xray X-Race UK on the weekend of the 12th of June. It is understood that the race is open for everyone and more information about the event will become available soon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 13, 2016

Xray X-Race Italy – Announcement

The Xray X-Race will be held in Scandiano, Italy on the 19th of March. All Xray friends are invited and welcomed at the race and more information about the event will become available soon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 13, 2016

Ware & Barton wins at Silverstone Winter Series

The recent January round of the Silverstone Winter Series saw Charlie Ware scoring the biggest win of his R/C career. He comfortably set the 2WD TQ, and took the win in front of his team mates Tom Yardy and Nathan Waters. In the 4WD class there was a close battle between Richard Barton and Matt Owen with Richard eventually taking the win with Matt 2nd and Dave Burton 3rd.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

January 12, 2016

Russian Touring Masters 2016 – Announcement

The 2016 edition of the Russian Touring Masters will take place from the 25th of 27th of March in St. Petersburg, Russia. The third installation of the event will be held in the three classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 17.5T Blinky and Touring Stock 13.5T with the latter class using select motor and speedo combos. Beside the fastest Russian drivers the race will see the appearance of some fast international racers such as Viljami Kutvonen, Max Mächler, and Marcel Geiger. More information can be found on the official event website here.

January 12, 2016

Mikko Maula wins Finnish SC Winter Cup Rd2

This past weekend round 2 of the Finnish SC Winter Cup was held at the Nokia RC track. After the qualifiers Mikko Maula, Martti Myllyntaus and Tony Liljeqvist occupied the top 3 spots with a great margin but during the finals Mikko got nervous but in the end managed to win the opening final with Tony winning the second leg and Martti the third, so the overall win was up for grabs before the fourth and decisive leg. Eventually Mikko Maula took the win with Mikael Yrjänäinen in second place and Tony Liljeqvist in third, leaving Martti Myllyntaus in fourth.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]